March 10th-14th - Book Fair
March 13th - Open House @ 5:30 (more info to come)
March 14th - Field Trip money DUE
March 14th - Spirit Rally @ 8:00
March 14th - Shamrock Shuffle - (during Specials) 3rd grade @ 10:10
Friday, March 21st - LAST DAY to order a Yearbook - Order Link Here code: 14305225 March 25th- Spring Creek Spirit Night 5-8pm
Character Trait of the Week
Week of March 10th
Terrific Texans
Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan.
Congratulations to this week's winners!
Sukeeth, Magathi, and Maelys
3rd Grade FIELD TRIP
We will be going to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science on Friday, May 2nd for our third-grade field trip. The learners will be exploring various exhibits, participate in hands-on learning and enjoy the Suiting up for Space program for an experience aligning with our third grade TEKS and learning objectives following our state standardized testing.
We will be leaving school around 8:30 AM and will return around 2:00 PM. Every learner will need to bring a sack lunch that can be thrown away. Sack lunches will also be available from the cafeteria if you choose.
The cost of the field trip per child is $15. The attached permission slip needs to be signed and returned with cash or check (made out to Coppell ISD) by Friday, March 14th. All parts of the permission slip need to be filled out in order for your child to participate in our field trip.
CHAPERONES NEEDED! If you would like to chaperone, please complete the attached Chaperone Interest page and return it to your child’s homeroom teacher ASAP so that we can make sure we confirm your background check or run one if needed. The cost of a chaperone’s admission to the Museum is $15. The money is due by Friday, March 14th. You will need to make sure you arrange for your own transportation to the Museum. You can meet us at TCE and carpool with other parents and follow the buses. We ask that if you have younger children that you please make arrangements for them while you are at the museum as they won’t be able to attend. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher!
Please return the signed permission slip and $15 in the attached envelope. If you would like to chaperone, please include the additional $15.
Social Emotional Literacy Library
Town Center's Family Social Emotional Literacy Library
Town Center has an exciting resource for families! We now have an entire resource library focused on Social and Emotional skill development. Themes are divided into 5 categories: Understanding Myself, Managing Myself, Respecting Others, Building Relationships, and Making Decisions.
View the titles here: TCE's Family Literacy Library Titles. Then, select the topic that interests you and complete this form to Request a Family Book Bag. Corresponding conversation starters to help facilitate discussions at home will also be included in the book bag. Books and discussion questions may be kept for two weeks and then returned to Kelly Matlock, TCE's counselor. Please email kmatlock@coppellisd.com with any questions.
Yearbook
Attendance
Background Checks
We ask that all families complete a volunteer background check at the start of the year. They do not carry over from year to year. Since the background checks take time to process, we ask that everyone complete one in case any type of volunteering opportunity (class field trip, Dad's Club, Room parent, class volunteer, field day, etc.) arises during the year that you are interested in. Please click on the link below to complete it.
Background Checks - Linked Here
Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)
Please help ensure your child wears appropriate shoes on PE days and Move & Groove (Fridays). Additionally, every other Thursday 3rd grade has extended specials during CTT. The dates are outlined for the remainder of the year below. Thank you for your help in making sure your child is safely dressed for the gym!
3rd Grade CTT Dates for 2025: 3/27, 4/10, 4/25, 5/8
TCE Principal Newsletter
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Each week Ms. Martin sends out her Town Center Principal Newsletter. Please make sure to check out all the important campus-wide announcements in the Principal Newsletter.
Due to a busy week, we did not finish our drama unit! We will be finishing up during the first part of the week and then will move into some test prep strategies. We will focus on reading articles, poems, and short stories through the lens of our literary elements we’ve been practicing all year. Student responses will be measured through multiple choice, short constructed responses and extended constructed responses. We will also be reflecting on our practice STAAR test we took last Friday!
Social Studies - This week we will continue our Economics Unit but will focus on how supply and demand affect the price of a good or service. I’ve included the high priority learning standard as well as the supporting standards for the area of focus this week..
HPLS 3.6A explain how supply and demand affect the price of a good or service
Supporting Standards:
3.6D identify individuals, past and present, such as Henry Ford and Sam Walton who have started new businesses
Math - We are keeping calm and fractioning on! Next week, we’ll talk about fractions on a number line and decomposing the sum of fractions and composing unit fractions.
Fractions on a number line mean we’ll be looking at where fractions live on the number line between 0 and 1.
Decomposing means we will have a fraction sum and have to break it apart into unit fractions. Students will be given a fraction (in this example, it’s ¾), and they’ll have to break it into unit fractions: ¾=¼ + ¼ + ¼ Unit fractions always have a 1 as the numerator and are the most basic level of fraction; they can’t be broken down anymore.
To compose unit fractions, students will be given unit fractions (in this example, it’s ¼ + ¼ + ¼ ) and have to put them together: ¾ would be the answer.
Is your head spinning? No worries, your kids are doing great! If we have time next week, we’ll move into comparing fractions. Big learning happening over here, and I bada da da da, I’m lovin’it!
Science - In Science we will wrap up our rapid land changes with exploring what causes landslides and the result after. Be on the lookout at Open House, next Thursday, to see all we have learned.
